Flowers v. Fiore’s Empirical Analysis
359 F.3d 24 · 2004
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 22 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Newton (2004), Lacey v. Maricopa County (2012)
24 federal appellate · 22 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Terry v. Ohio · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Graham v. Connor
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a genuine issue of material fact exists, [the court] constructs] the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party and make[s] all reasonable inferences in that party's favor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bleish v. Moriarty · US v. Woodruff“in a borderline case where the detention at issue has one or two arrest-like features but otherwise is consistent with a Terry stop, it will not be obvious just how the detention at issue ought reasonably to have been perceived. Such a case requires a fact-specific inquiry into whether the measures used by the police were reasonable in light of the circumstances that prompted the stop or that developed during the course of the stop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonable belief that the use of such restraints was necessary to carry out the legitimate purposes of the stop without exposing law enforcement officers, the public, or the suspect himself to an undue risk of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.